At the End of Ruin, There You Are (56 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 84

“Oh, Your Highness!”

“You’ve arrived?”

Wherever she went, more people welcomed Caella than Pheon. Strange. They’d even expelled the steward and the butler, so Caella should have been treated like an unwelcome outsider—the rolling stone that displaced the firmly set one—in Lusenford by now.

“What’s so fascinating?”

She hadn’t said a word, and her expression barely changed. Yet Pheon, who’d been studying her face, let out a soft chuckle.

“Why are these people so friendly all of a sudden? I didn’t do anything—why this look?”

“You got the steward and the butler dismissed because of me.”

Saying she did nothing was nonsense. She’d deliberately done exactly what the Lusenford people hated most.

“Oh. That. There were rumors, sure.”

In one corner of Lusenford, whispers circulated—some gossiping and disparaging how the Grand Duke had dealt cruelly with the former steward, the butler, and others involved.

They complained the Grand Duke had bowed too hastily, driven by concerns over Ostein’s gold.

“He said I was being too deferential to my father-in-law.”

Caella looked up at the man who clearly wasn’t capable of such weakness.

“Those spreading such rumors are obvious enough.”

People who wanted things from Pheon. Those eager to raise their voices louder in this region. Ambitious folk who dreamed of stepping into Klein themselves and had already tried pulling strings there. All of them were cut from the same cloth.

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